Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Tuesday that the army and security forces have taken all the necessary measures to control the security situation in the northern city of Tripoli and “prevent any attempts to create strife.”

He said during a cabinet session at the Grand Serail: “I call on the residents of Tripoli to exercise restraint and avoid falling victim to attempts to spark unrest in the city.”

The Mustaqbal Movement on Sunday vowed to “smash” the Hizbullah-led rival political camp in the 2013 parliamentary elections, stressing that it will not rest before seeing the killers of ISF Intelligence Bureau chief Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan “hanging from the gallows.”

“It is a day for loyalty, not a day for tears. It is a day for loyalty to martyr Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan and his companion, martyr Ahmed Suhyouni,” the movement's secretary-general Ahmed Hariri said during a popular and official rally held in Tripoli to commemorate 40 days since the assassination of Hasan in a car bomb attack on October 19.

The Lebanese Army is holding contacts with Syrian authorities to reveal the fate of around 25 men from northern Lebanon after reports emerged that they were killed as they tried to enter the Syrian town of Tall Kalakh, near the Lebanese border, An Nahar daily reported Sunday.

Several youth from al-Mankoubeen area in the northern city of Tripoli have erected tents near al-Nour mosque in protest and warned they would take escalatory measures if the Lebanese authorities brought no new information about their fate.

At least 17 Lebanese Islamists were killed in Syria on Friday as they were infiltrating the country, reported various media outlets.

Agence France Presse said that 17 Lebanese Sunni fighters were killed in Syria's Tal Kalakh border area in an ambush carried out by regime forces.

Thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon are urgently seeking temporary shelter similar to the camps set up in Turkey and Jordan, but with its troubled history of refugees, Beirut and the U.N. reject the idea.

"If no camp or emergency solution is provided, families will end up sleeping on the streets, or returning to Syria," said Ayman al-Hariri, a Syrian activist in Lebanon's northern province of Akkar, where tens of thousands of refugees are currently based.

Bab al-Tabbaneh residents briefly blocked on Tuesday the international highway that links the northern city of Tripoli with Akkar for the second week in a row to protest the government's failure to compensate them for the damages caused by the recent incidents in the city.

The residents, according to the National News Agency, demand a swift solution.

A military explosives expert removed on Wednesday four hand grenades found on the side of a road in the northern city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said the grenades were found on the Abi Samra-Wadi Hab road.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji on Tuesday warned against keeping the northern city of Tripoli “at the mercy of gunmen,” stressing that the army “will not be lenient with them.”

As he inspected the military units deployed in Tripoli as part of the security plan laid out by the Army Command, Qahwaji stressed “the need to take the strictest measures that can keep the security situation in the city under control and prevent the 'importing or exporting' of strife.”

Libya on Tuesday celebrated the first anniversary of its "liberation" from the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, even as fighting flared in a former bastion of the slain dictator.

On October 23, 2011, just three days after Gadhafi was captured and killed in his hometown Sirte, the transitional authorities declared the country's liberation, formally ceasing hostilities.

The army deployed on Tuesday in Syria Street, the frontier between the rival Tripoli districts of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh, as a ceasefire was declared following three days of clashes in the area that left 11 people dead and 39 others wounded.

“All gunmen have left the streets and internal alleys” in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, a security official told Agence France Press.